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Indlæser... Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad (udgave 2012)af Melanie Kirkpatrick
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Amazing account of life in North Korea and the escape to South Korea. Shaped by the interviews, the book offers virtually no analysis or evaluation of the sources. Not necessarily wrong, but focused on the stories of the organizations interviewed. Seoul USA and VOM was mentioned in the book, but the author never talked with us....it appears she just put information from our website into her book. I wonder how many actual interviews she did as this could easily be a book created from other people's existing works. Not a horrible read, but I would try to go to the primary sources that are available instead of this secondary source book. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
From the world’s most repressive state comes rare good news: the escape to freedom of a small number of its people. It is a crime to leave North Korea. Yet increasing numbers of North Koreans dare to flee. They go first to neighboring China, which rejects them as criminals, then on to Southeast Asia or Mongolia, and finally to South Korea, the United States, and other free countries. They travel along a secret route known as the new underground railroad. With a journalist’s grasp of events and a novelist’s ear for narrative, Melanie Kirkpatrick tells the story of the North Koreans’ quest for liberty. Travelers on the new underground railroad include women bound to Chinese men who purchased them as brides, defectors carrying state secrets, and POWs from the Korean War held captive in the North for more than half a century. Their conductors are brokers who are in it for the money as well as Christians who are in it to serve God. The Christians see their mission as the liberation of North Korea one person at a time. Just as escaped slaves from the American South educated Americans about the evils of slavery, the North Korean fugitives are informing the world about the secretive country they fled. Escape from North Korea describes how they also are sowing the seeds for change within North Korea itself. Once they reach sanctuary, the escapees channel news back to those they left behind. In doing so, they are helping to open their information-starved homeland, exposing their countrymen to liberal ideas, and laying the intellectual groundwork for the transformation of the totalitarian regime that keeps their fellow citizens in chains. Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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